Re: RFS: iguanair (try #2)
2009/6/9 V13 <v13@v13.gr>:
> On Tuesday 09 June 2009, Jack Kelly wrote:
>> 2009/6/8 Stefanos Harhalakis <v13@v13.gr>:
>> > On Monday 08 June 2009, Jack Kelly wrote:
>> >> 2009/6/8 Stefanos Harhalakis <v13@v13.gr>:
>> >> > The package appears to be lintian clean except from an the override
>> >> > of:
>> >> >
>> >> > iguanair source: configure-generated-file-in-source config.status
>> >> >
>> >> > I believe that the override is justified since the upstream tarball
>> >> > doesn't include a configure.in source and cannot be remade with
>> >> > auto-tools.
>> >>
>> >> config.status is generated by configure, not autoconf, so you'll
>> >> probably find that you can take it out.
>> >
>> > I'm already removing it in the clean target:
>> >
>> > debian.rules:
>> > clean::
>> > rm -f config.status
>> >
>> > Isn't that sufficient?
>>
>> I'm not a dev, but if lintian's complaining, then probably not. If you
>> remove it manually, then won't it be removed by the diff when you make
>> the source package?
>
> The lintian explanation[1] says:
>
> "The clean rule in debian/rules should remove this file.
> [...]
> Note that Lintian cannot reliably detect the removal in the clean rule, so
> once you fix this, please ignore or override this warning."
>
> I also try not to touch anything outside debian/ directory since it will make
> lintian complain because there are patches too.
>
> [1] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/configure-generated-file-in-source.html
Okay, good to know. Thanks.
-- Jack
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